TUPAC AMARU

• TUPAC AMARU (2008) series –  1/25
• Serigraphs – 19.7 x 27.6 inches (70 x 50 cm.)
• Numbered – original artist signature – watermark – certificate
• Hand printing over cotton paper.

José Gabriel Condorcanqui, popularly known as Túpac Amaru, was the indigenous leader of the largest revolution against Spanish colonization in the 18th century. His leadership united all ethnic groups and fought for the freedom of all Latin America, but he was betrayed, captured, and brutally tortured. Finally, his execution was ordered in the middle of a public act in the Plaza de Armas of Cusco. They tried to butcher him alive by tying four horses to his limbs to pull and rip him apart, but they could not do it. At the end, he was beheaded and dismembered. In that same act, his wife Micaela Bastidas and their two older children were also executed. Túpac Amaru is considered an emblem of national identity.

“Just being a child and seeing the image of Túpac Amaru in a plaza being pulled by 4 horses was epic. It was like seeing a superhero of our history, like the ones we saw on television …” —Cherman